Who is M & R Technologies? Why are we different?

M & R Technologies was founded in 1990 during the time Windows 3.0 was released. Our President believed that Windows would eventually replace DOS as an operating system. We had our first Windows Invoice Software on the Internet in 1992 (on CompuServe and later on America Online (AOL)) and our Inventory Software in 1996. We introduced the first email invoice in 1996 and secured our current domain name (mrtec.com) in 1997. We are now in over 95 countries with our programs. We are proven Windows Software pioneers. 18 years have made our software a world-class force. Many programmers have tried to copy our products only to fail in software design and in many other aspects. Here is a little history of our President.

Our President was elected to the ASP (Association of Shareware Professionals) Board of Directors in 1998 when ASP was losing members because BBS's and DOS programmers were losing their way due to the Internet and Windows. He helped to turn them around, with their reborn marketing booth, updated membership standards, bylaws and much more. He grew the membership, helped to create the PAD standard and inducted the first 6 ASP hall of fame members. The membership doubled! Mike was happy to see this goal happen, as well as all of the other things he was able to make happen for them. Mike is a team member of the original Internet boom.

It may have been his enthusiasm that guided Mike to do so much for other software developers on the Internet, but it was our superior software design and implementation that made us different and allowed us the time and resources to do it. Mike even had an interview with the original creator of the try-before-you-buy concept - 20 years later. You can read the entire interview by clicking here.

We remain your best choice today. 18+ years of work on our programs have made it so. Check out one of our software packages today, absolutely free. Why not get started today!

PDF Invoices, Purchase Orders and Customer Statements

Using FF Inventory Pro Deluxe, you can batch email your invoices, purchase orders and customer statements in PDF and/or plain-text formats. All of our other products can also produce PDF files, however, you can process them only one at a time, which works fine for many of our customers. The batch-email in our other products offers plain-text emails only.

The beauty of PDF (portable document format) files is that you can email them to your customers, and when they print or view them, it will look exactly like it would when printed on a printer. This means all of the graphics such as your company logo, fonts, lines and colors will be displayed. It is a much better look than plain-text emails could ever be and with the free Adobe PDF viewer, millions of people all over the world are able to view your PDF.

However, each format has it's positive and negative features. Using left-justified, plain text, word-wrapping format allows it to be read by ALL email readers. People around the world have their email readers setup in MANY different ways. Some block emails with file attachments (PDF's). Some block HTML invoices and only have their email reader setup for plain text emails only, or use an email reader that can't process HTML. Many use different fonts and font sizes to display their emails and/or use a small viewing window to read their emails. Therefore, using plain text means that the majority of people who receive your email will be able to (A) receive it and (B) to view it. Since we do not send our email as an attachment, all email readers blocking attachments will receive our plain-text emails. Since we do not use HTML, all email readers that are blocking HTML will be able to receive and view our invoices, using whatever font they choose. We added the PDF invoice feature so you can email your invoices to your customers using graphics and colors, but note that any of your customers who are blocking file attachments, will not receive your PDF invoices. Which format you use is up to you.

You can email some customer invoices and print for others.

The email address for the customer is the key. The "Include Customers without E-Mail Address" option will cause the system to send e-mail for ALL customers, even if the customer does not have an email address entered in their customer setup. When this option is turned on, all email for customers without an e-mail address will be sent to your return e-mail address, alerting you that this customer has an empty email address in their customer setup. If this option is turned OFF, customers without an email address will NOT be sent. They will not be marked as printed either, so you will need to run the batch print option to print out these remaining invoices. This allows you to have some customers who receive their invoices (or statements) by email and some customers who have their invoices (or statements) printed and mailed. This is a powerful option which allows you to interact with your customers by postal mailing their invoices, while trying to save money on postage costs by sending email to your customers who have an email address.